Where will you spend the 4th Freeman's fair bury
A collection of short notices includes plans for Independence Day events at Freeman's and Fairbury, plus items about pie plant for sale and twine shipments. Burlingon passenger Jorden Lanmann visited Kansas City to see friends this week. Bert Caldwell advertises a 7 ft grain harvester for sale in Diller. Miss Pearl Bell and Mrs. Howard Jeffries were seen near Odell and attended a chautauqua. Ruth Rutherford, visiting with Miss Annie Hill, returned to Humboldt yesterday.
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Ruth Rutherford
Annie Hill
Humboldt
For sale great big used Ax minster rug 12x15 feet
A big used Ax minster rug 12 by 15 feet for sale in fine condition with two worn places. Price 22 dollars and 50 cents. Freeman's Fair.
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Freeman’s
Fairbury
No Old Days for Modern Car Cranking
A satirical remark contrasts modern car crank failures with the ease of wheelbarrow use in the past, suggesting people who break their arms now faced fewer issues in earlier times.
Mrs Quinter Fry Recovers from Infected Finger
Mrs Quinter Fry has been severely afflicted this week with an infected finger but now shows steady recovery.
Eggers Attend Amos Family Gathering in Lincoln Visit
Mr and Mrs Will Eggers traveled from Lincoln on Saturday to join a family gathering of the Amos family on Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs Frank Grabher.
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Will Eggers
Lincoln
Amos
Frank Grabher
Jansen Lumber Company Sells NW Quarter in 29-24 to Louie Fasne
The Jansen Lumber Co sold the northwest quarter of section 29 township 24 to Louie Fasne for 150 dollars per acre, marking a fifteen dollar per acre advance over their prior purchase price from a few weeks earlier.
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Jansen Lumber Co
Louie Fasne
George Fisher
Farmland Reacquired Near Diller At Higher Price
Peter Nelson, who sold his 240 acre farm five miles southeast of Diller in Gage county last March for 127 dollars per acre, repurchased it last week at 134.50 dollars per acre. The sale price represented an advance of 1800 dollars or 7.50 dollars per acre.
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Peter Nelson
Diller
Gage County
Grand Island Business College Ad in Nebraska Help Wanted
A Grand Island Nebraska ad promotes the Grand Island Business College offering business training for positions in business civil service or as a commercial teacher. The employment department requests readers to request a free catalogue claiming to be the oldest largest leading western school.
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Civil Service
Grand Island Business College
Grand Island
Nebraska
Freeman's ad notes local physician in Fairbury Neb
Dr. G H Newton of Fairbury Nebr appears in Freeman's advertisement. Mrs EF J Catlett visits Beatrice and requests the Record be sent there. Charlie Barber started the harvester in his rye field Monday and expects a good yield.
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Beatrice
Charely Barber
Freeman’s introduces new furniture in Fairbury
Freeman’s Fairbury announces new furniture and a few good used refrigerators and oil stoves. The note mentions a serial story starting next week Dice of Destiny and warns of the July 4 date, with a hot day of 104 degrees and Garland over Walker’s Dry Goods Store in Beatrice for measurement and viewing.
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Walker
Beatrice
Freemans’s
Fairbury
Fords for Sale and Local Visits Around Diller
Bargains on 1916 and two 1917 models offered by Ray Koenig Auto Co. Enquire at A. D. Stutts. Miss Carrie Linn of Council Bluffs Iowa visited sister Mrs Nancy Robertson and Diller relatives. Charley Warthen and family toured from near Holleburg Kansas to see relatives. Mrs Warthen and Flora Warthen, deputy at Diller post office, joined the visit. Mrs Sylvia Fish and daughter Adeline with Merle Jr. visited Mary Miller and Will Kennedy north of Fairbury.
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Ray Koenig Auto Co
A. D. Stutts
Carrie Linn
Council Bluffs, Ia
Nancy Robertson
Charley Warthen
Hollenburg
Kan
Mrs Warthen
Flora Warthen
Uncle Sam
Diller
Sylvia Fish
Adeline
Merle
Mary Miller
Will Kennedy
Fairbury
Local losses in Shea as thunder storm claims two horses
Don Gridley of the Shea neighborhood reports the loss of two valuable horses during last week's thunder storm. Master Alfred Mayborn traveled to Lincoln on Monday to visit his grandmother Mrs. Jackson and other relatives.
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Don Gridley
Shea
Alfred Mayborn
Lincoln
Mrs. Jackson
Maywood Man Visits Relatives in Steele City and Diller
J F Zollen of Maywood Illinois arrived last Saturday for a visit with relatives at Steele City and Diller.
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J.F. Zollen
Maywood, Ill
Chicago
Steele City
Diller
Local Visitor With Sister Makes Brief Stop
Miss Lara Lambert of Guide Rock visited with her sister Mrs. Cedric Fanders for several days starting early last week.
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Lara Lambert
Guide Rock
Cedric Fanders
Local Soldier Albert Renz Returns Home
Albert Renz returned home Wednesday after being discharged from service at Great Lakes. He served in Company G, 15th Regiment as a mechanician in the aviation department.
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Albert Renz
Great Lakes
Co. G., 15Th ’‘Reg
Aviation Department
Diller Central Chief Visits Wymore for Rate Change Guidance
Ruth Bowers, chief operator at the Diller telephone central, traveled to Wymore last Friday to receive instructions on adjusting telephone tolls to align with the new government rates.
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Ruth Bowers
Diller Telephone Central
Wymore’ Jast
Young Girl Fractures Arm In Alfalfa Stack Incident
Little Eunice Henrichs daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Henrichs fell from an alfalfa stack Thursday evening last week and broke both bones of her left forearm. Mr Diehl reduced the fracture and she is getting along fine.
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Eunice Henrichs
Fred Henrichs
Diehl
Diller Soldier Returns Home From Overseas Service
Sergeant Chas W. Renz formerly of Diller returns from nine months abroad with the 852nd Infantry 88th Division AEF in France. He endured much service and is glad to be home again.
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Lnst
Chas. W. Renz
France
Charley
Threshermen Set Fall Wages in Diller Meeting
About ten to twelve threshermen in the Diller vicinity met last Friday and fixed threshing prices for the fall. Wheat from the shock 10 cents per bushel, barley 5 cents, oats 7 cents. Only enough grain for feeding will be threshed first. later in the season prices may drop as crop prospects improve.
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Diller
Hale family travels from home to visit relatives and plan Colorado land venture
F. E. Hale drove to Waverly on Sunday to visit family and Mrs. Greenwood. On Wednesday morning Mr. and Mrs. Hale with children left for Colorado to invest in Kiowa valley land about seventy miles east of Denver. They are joined by Mrs. Frank Pearce and grandson Frank Cavett who will visit Wauneta Nebraska with her brother and sister-in-law Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Lamb for a few days.
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F. E. Hale
Waverly
Dillers Plan Return of Soldiers Nurses in City Event
Dillers will host a July 16 reception for returning soldiers sailors and nurses with band music singing lemonade a city lawn banquet dedication of a tree to Private Oscar Mathias an oratorical address and a city hall dance. A committees meeting is called for Friday night at the city hall to finalize plans.
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Diller
Oscar Mathias
Nebraska
Trapshooter C L Waggoner Heads North for Auto Tour
C L Waggoner joins a party of four trapshooters in an auto tour through northern Nebraska. They plan shooting matches Thursday and Saturday and bass fishing Friday. Friends praise his trap skill and fishing reputation but fear his chances with elusive bass.
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C. L. Waggoner
Lincoln
Cal
Basa
Diller Takes State Dental Exam in Topeka Visit
Dr. Will S. Diller went to Topeka Kansas last Saturday for the state dental examination via Belleville Kansas. A daughter was born the 20th to Mr and Mrs Orval Riddle former Diller residents at their Akron Ohio home.
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Topeka
Kan
Gong
Belleville
Orval Riddle
Diller
Akron
Culo
Willey Family Visits Extend Across Multiple States
Mr and Mrs N D T Willey host daughters from Rupert Idaho Dabot Olga and Pocasset Okla with visits continuing from Steele City friends and Beatrice area relatives Corp Herbert Ruhl shares AEF France service tales during Lincoln return visit.
Limprechts Visit to Diller Before Recalling Instructor
Mr and Mrs E G Limprecht and their young son arrived from Morgantown West Virginia to visit Mrs Nancy Clark and Diller relatives. They plan to depart Sunday for Bisbee Arizona where Mr Limprecht is recalled as instructor in manual training with a higher salary.
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E G. Limprecht
Little Son
Morgantown
W. Va
Limprecht
Nancy Clark
Bisbee
Ariz
Land Tour Begins As Cherry Family Heads West
Mr and Mrs W A Cherry and daughters Bessie and Margaret start a land seeking tour in their Ford, planning to travel through northern Nebraska and likely into Wyoming and Colorado. En route they will meet his brother John D Cherry and a family formerly from Clarks Neb. A letter from that brother says he sold land at Clarks at a $10000 gain over his purchase price.
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W. A. Cherry
Bessie
Margaret Cherry
Nebraska
Wyoming
Colorado
John D. Cherry
Clarks
Nebr
Mr. Cherry
Harvest Wages Fixed by Nebraska Farm Groups
At a Lincoln meeting on June 10 representative farmers and delegates from major farm organizations set harvest wages in Nebraska at 50 cents per hour with board for shockers and pitchers and 65 cents per hour for stackers. Ten hours constitute a day. Organizations present included the Nebraska Farmers' Congress, Farmers' Cooperative and Educational Union, State Grange, Nebraska Corn Improvement Association, State Farm Bureau Association, State Board of Agriculture, College of Agriculture Extension Service, and the U.S. Department of Labor Employment Service. Prominent Nebraska farmers attended. A resolution urged repeal of daylight saving time.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Nebraska Farmers’ Congress
Farmers’ Cooperative and Educational Union
State Grange
Nebraska Corn Improves’ Association
State Farm Bureau ‘Association
State Board of Agriculture
College of Agriculture Extension Service
Employment Service
United States Department of Labor
Con
Diller Central Chief Operator Warns of Clock Changes
Ruth Bowers, chief operator, warns Harbine residents that failing to advance clocks may trigger high telephone charges. A Wednesday incident in Harbine saw an Arnold boy injure a blacksmith with a pocket knife, cutting his cheek and sending him to a Fairbury hospital for treatment.
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Arnold
Fairbury
Church Items and Independence Day Sermon Plans
The message urges greater church attendance despite heat and questions God’s role in world events. The pastor will be at Rock Creek for the morning service next Sunday and is expected to speak on National Independence Day Friday of next week. The Sunday school meets in town as usual.
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Rock Creek
Burlington Cream Train Joins Lincoln Route Schedule
The Burlington launches a cream only train from Lincoln at 11 30 a m daily except Sunday to Oxford via Wymore arriving 7 30 p m It returns from Oxford to Lincoln arriving 2 40 p m The service carries only cream cars no passengers and aims to relieve passenger trains during peak cream season for about sixty days per Lincoln Journal.
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Lincoln
Jersey
Rock Island
Burlington
Oxford
Wymore
Lincoln Journal
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Citizens State Bank
G. T. Mills
Jorden Lanmann
Kansas City
Acme
Bert Caldwell
Freeman
G.H. Newton
Freeman's
H. K. Shutt
J. J. Conniff
Corp
Herbert Ruhl
Methodist
Haemsgees 3
Diller Market
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